#whipspider

[platycryptus]

Time-lapse of Paraphrynus cubensis amblypygids hatching from the eggsac attached to their mother’s underside and climbing on her back.

[metalrabbitcosmos]

Marney!!

I forgot how to color so when I figure that out I’ll post more..

[onenicebugperday]

Eastern whipspider (tailless whipscorpion) molting and with scorplings, Damon annulatipes

Photo 1 by dherbert and 2-4 by suncana

[ghastlyarachnid]

The joy of seeing a mutual go !! :D over me knowing about the whipspider reminds me that I really need to do that slideshow stream I've been thinking about for a while where I just talk about my favourite weird critters. Mother nature looked at bugs and went you know what? Let's get weird, I'm going to create a little guy that is SO FUNNY

[optimisticrunawayspider]

thge MULTIPLE spider people that dont stick to walls are so mad about the spider-hq being upside down in many places

[crevicedwelling]

Oh no he’s a whip scorpion I fucked up I love you whip scorpion but not as much as spiders 

you were right the first time, but common names are garbage anyway. whipscorpion more commonly refers to Uropygi aka vinegaroons and not Amblypygi, which are the tailless whipscorpions or whipspiders. but like I said common names are garbage “amblypygi” is better

[bogleech]

Finding this Harvestman and seeing its gangly feeler legs made me think.

Do you know if Harvestmen are more closely related to mites, pseudoscorpions, or whipscorpions / whipspiders? I know they’re all under the Arachnida umbrella, but I know they’re all more distantly related. The sausage-shaped body of a Harvestman reminds me of a mite, but the super-elongated antenna-like second pair of feeling legs makes me think of a whipspider.

It is believed their closest relatives are mites! But it's kind of debatable, and it varies with how you want to define "related;" their similarities are because both are such ancient arachnid groups, they're closer to how some of the very earliest arachnids looked before even modern spiders would have evolved :)

[quark-nova]

my whipspider died :(

rip snippy, i loved you

[quark-nova]

Got bitten by a centipede once, the venom spread through a big part of my arm, ended up in the hospital, I still have the scar years later :/

Centipedes are quite cool looking and of course I don't blame people who like them but I just don't want to be close to them since then. (Plus in terms of cool arthropods I already have a whipspider pet ^^)

If you said yes to the first 3 please explain in the tags what animal it was and what was the damage

[platycryptus]

This Acanthophrynus coronatus just molted, and you can see his size compared to his discarded exuvia. He’s huge but still not full grown!

Amblypygids and some other arachnids take on that blue coloration after molting because they have copper-based blood, just like their horseshoe crab cousins. Over the next few days his pale, squishy exoskeleton will harden and return to its normal colors.

[arthropodude]

#Phrynidae #Drawing #amblypygid #modernarts #arachnid #sketch #whipspider #creativeart #taillesswhipscorpion #art #subtropical #tropicalinsect #arthropod #nocturnal #amblypygi #arthropodart #entomology #entomologylovers https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BAj7bjmxA/?igshid=sllshsa3ks6k

[quark-nova]

Okay but thanks so much for this post, I was thinking of getting a mantis to replace my lost whipspider (still crying about it), and now I'll double-think about it for the whole feeding thing!

I think people who want to push for more insect consumption should stop trying to push with crickets and instead should push with darkling beetle larva (mealworms, superworms) because crickets smell really bad and have kind of a fishy after taste while mealworms are just really starchy. Mealworms look tastier, smell tastier, and are tastier.

[crevicedwelling]

Hi! I have a tank with crickets (originally raised to feed my whipspider) and isopods, and I usually give them fish flakes, banana, and/or bread, but most of it (especially the flakes) seems to mold. What should I do to avoid this? Would adding springtails to take care of the mold be a good idea? (and if so, should I just grab some in the park or buy from a reputable culture?) Any other solution?

buy a culture of something, (most wild springtail species aren’t as good at devouring moldy grain products like fish food and bread). I suggest entomobryomorphs, not sure what little white species of those I’ve got but they’re literally in every cup I have.

something like these should do, larger than mine but of a similar habit. wouldn’t worry too much about “reputable” since there’s hardly a wrong way to grow springtails (I suppose you wouldn’t want to be sent the wrong species, or a culture with mites in them. tho certain mites are pretty helpful too!)

other option would be to just offer less food. things will mold with springtails or not, just slower because they’ll eat the food and some but not all of the mold. solving the problem at the root is better; only feed what they’ll eat in a day or two. might also help to use a shallow food dish so the food isn’t in contact with moist substrate, and also keep the food in the driest part of the enclosure so that there isn’t water to fuel mold growth.

[quark-nova]

Do you have a favorite type of bug? Prehistoric or modern!

For prehistoric bugs, I'll definitely go with radiodonts! I love their silly faces and their flaps!

For modern bugs, my favourite are velvet worms, but my pet whipspider Snippy might get angry if I say this :p

[sabbathercio]

Os amblipígios (aranha-caiandeua ou aranha-violão e internacionalmente de whip spiders (aranha-chicote)) são frequentemente confundidos com aranhas por pessoas leigas e aparentam ser perigosos para maioria do público. Estes animais, de aparência assustadora para alguns, não apresentam qualquer ameaça para os seres humanos, visto que não possuem veneno e se comportam como predadores de insetos, outros aracnídeos e pequenos vertebrados. Os Amblypygi possuem o corpo achatado, grandes pedipalpos providos de espinhos e o primeiro par de pernas extremamente alongado e com função sensitiva. Apresentam hábitos noturnos e podem ser achados vivendo em cavernas, sob ou dentro de troncos, sob rochas, serapilheira e ambientes antrópicos, como o da foto, que apareceu aqui em casa. #biologia #biology #artropodes #whipspider https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYOBoPNJQs/?utm_medium=tumblr

[quark-nova]

used to have a pet whipspider (they're not actual spiders but still related!), it always surprised people a little bit but yeah i'm lucky not to have heard that kind of negative comments. unfortunately she died during a molt :(

Man, THANK you for that pets post! I keep cockroaches and several spiders, and I've even had people who keep mice/reptiles/other less traditional pets talk about how they want to step on or burn my pets. It's really tiring sometimes, I love my roaches but I feel I can't share pictures of them without complete strangers talking about killing them. It's wild that people just don't get how that's incredibly rude and uncalled for??

Its ridiculous!!!!! like if someone says an animal is their pet that OBVIOUSLY MEANS THEY HAVE AN EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO IT. if nothing else, even if you only respect humans, respect THAT HUMAN and THEIR EMOTIONS. nevermind cockroaches, spiders, everything has a place in the biosphere and has evolved into that place and therefore is necessary and "good", whatever that is. Like we can't even begin there if people refuse to respect other people. Damn. And I say this as someone with crippling arachnophobia.